Thread: Idea help

okay, so I know that I just finished a rough draft of a script. but I have so many ideas that wanna come out and new ones are being born. I just came up with a new one a couple of nights ago and it's been nagging at me. I've got a general idea of what it's supose to be about and I've got the main characters. I have little scenes that i want to happen within it and such. I just can't seem to get everything straight.

I've had some problems with this before with other ideas. they sometimes work themselves out, but not always, and that usually takes months even years to happen. Why?

is there anyway that I can speed up the proccess?

sorry i know the question seems a little A.D.D

Just write, dont think about it so hard.

Just sit down and start writing, go back later and add in everything you forgot or wanted.

The nearest I can think of is to write it out, then leave it alone for a while and approach it again as an editor, cutting out what isn't necessary and adding background as needed.

Come to think of it, in your shadowman piece, you could have cut out the childhood part and went straight to the part later on where the MC was with her father, alluding to the earlier events as needed.

I have written nothing. But if you still have all these ideas, you started writing too soon.

is there anyway that I can speed up the proccess?

Did you try drugs?

Originally Posted by lin

Did you try drugs?

Go to your room.

Originally Posted by lin

Did you try drugs?

the problem there is that by the time you're in any fit condition to transfer the ideas to type, most of them are gone...

Sometimes it's really easy to get stuck on a script becuase there are many characters, subplots, and whatnot to get muddled in. But I always find that wherever I get stuck.. it's from some direction I took it in pages earlier. Rarely does some "perfect" solution swoop down and save me from the corner I've written myself into. So, I usually backtrack and rethink the character, subplot, plot and try a new path.

Oh, if there were only an easier way to get through it all. Persistance is a real import tool and it separates a lot of people who have ideas for novels and scripts but don't execute them on the page from the ones who do. And even then, most first drafts, as one of my teachers used to say... come out as ugly babies that only you love. It takes time and drafts before that baby starts getting cute. But is that time worth it? YES. Becuase it's your baby! Unfortunately, this time commitment means not every idea gets written of yours and you have to pick the best ones to move forward with. I'd say write your extra ideas as clearly as you can on paper, with notes and stuff... and file it away until you have time to work on them. Of course you can write out scenes and stuff, but it's really easy to abandon your current draft of a script for a new idea... and the same thing next time... and the same... etc.

And yeah, apparently with time, it gets easier to speed up the process. I had a teacher who wrote German Made for TV movies and could finish one in 3 weeks with revisions.

Originally Posted by lin

Did you try drugs?

haha.

Originally Posted by Wallmaker

Sometimes it's really easy to get stuck on a script becuase there are many characters, subplots, and whatnot to get muddled in. But I always find that wherever I get stuck.. it's from some direction I took it in pages earlier. Rarely does some "perfect" solution swoop down and save me from the corner I've written myself into. So, I usually backtrack and rethink the character, subplot, plot and try a new path.

Or you could keep the story in the corner, go with the undesireable outcome, and see where it goes, having your characters live through the consequences. *shrugs* They are all valid approaches, but neither one is easier than the other.

write out the scenes. make an idea map, timeline, one of those webs with the main idea in the middle and then sub-ideas branching off. it might help to get all your ideas organized, then you can pick and choose what you think is important

hey, thanks everyone for being pateint with my little rant. I had just gotten excited about an idea that I had come up with. I write every single thing I come up with in a notebook, I have one whole notebook full and am getting close to the end of the second one. there are outlines and little idea bursts and dialouge line and such. some of my ideas can take shape in a matter of days, others months, even years. I was just trying to force this one to be a quick one. It's not.

oh by the way about the drungs...LOL!!! I don't take drugs, my A.D.D and mild dislexia keep my brain busy enough. ( no joke.)

Originally Posted by Guitar_chick133

okay, so I know that I just finished a rough draft of a script. but I have so many ideas that wanna come out and new ones are being born. I just came up with a new one a couple of nights ago and it's been nagging at me. I've got a general idea of what it's supose to be about and I've got the main characters. I have little scenes that i want to happen within it and such. I just can't seem to get everything straight.

I've had some problems with this before with other ideas. they sometimes work themselves out, but not always, and that usually takes months even years to happen. Why?

is there anyway that I can speed up the proccess?

sorry i know the question seems a little A.D.D

Well I can say that it could help maybe if you write your ideas down and see whats your favorite or write the scene part in every idea you get..
as you can then choose whats your favorite.